GluttonTier SDanger 5Build #2
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Explosive Carnage Build

This build focuses on maximizing explosive interactions through high burst damage and healing. With strong melee options and synergies with consumables, the strategy involves sustaining health while aggressively clearing waves and bosses.

Chainsaw icon
Chainsaw icon
Chainsaw icon
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Captain's Sword icon
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Score

95

Difficulty

hard

Why This Build Exists

Explosive Feast Build, focusing on different weapons and maximizing melee damage instead of area damage.

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Weapons

Chainsaw icon

3x Chainsaw

coreTier 4

The Chainsaw provides continuous melee damage that scales well with consumable explosions, allowing Glutton to deal high damage while benefiting from health recovery through item usage.

Captain's Sword icon

2x Captain's Sword

coreTier 4

This weapon’s sweeping damage and ability to gain bonus damage based on free slots align perfectly with Glutton’s item mechanics, enhancing melee damage while keeping pressure on enemies.

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1x War Hammer

coreTier 4

The War Hammer offers significant single-target damage and crowd control through knockback, crucial for handling elite mobs and maintaining survival in Danger 5.

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Main Items

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Honey

highhigh value

Honey increases explosion damage and size, which synergizes well with Glutton's explosive healing when picking up consumables during combat.

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Fresh Meat

highhigh value

Fresh Meat provides a boost to life steal, which enhances survivability, especially when combined with explosive damage from pickups.

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Alien Worm

mediummedium value

This item boosts HP regeneration while increasing max HP, helping Glutton sustain through the explosive playstyle.

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Explosive Turret

mediummedium value

A great addition for additional area control, the turret creates explosive damage that complements Glutton's style and helps control crowds.

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Big Arms

lowmedium value

Adds melee damage and some durability; useful for enhancing frontline presence during intense waves.

Upgrade Focus

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Max HP

Increases survivability. With Glutton’s playstyle relying on health pickups, a higher HP cap ensures more explosive healing opportunities.

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Melee Damage

Boosting melee damage directly supports the primary weapons, leading to faster enemy kills and more explosive damage through consumables.

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Attack Speed

Increasing attack speed allows more frequent strikes with melee weapons, maximizing damage output during engagements.

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Life Steal

Enhances healing potential during combat, vital for maintaining health through sustained damage output.

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Early Game

Focus on picking up consumables rapidly to enhance melee damage and heal. Prioritize gaining basic upgrades like 'Lungs' for some regeneration to keep health balanced.

Mid Game

Start acquiring major items like 'Honey' to amplify damage output while strengthening health through 'Fresh Meat' to ensure sustainability against tougher enemies.

Late Game

In waves 16-20, focus on crowd control with the 'War Hammer' and capitalizing on the explosive turrets to handle the dual-boss fight. Ensure that consumables are collected to boost health continually and maintain high DPS on bosses.

Build Reasoning

This build focuses on optimizing Glutton's ability to heal and deal damage through effective use of melee weapons and explosive synergy with consumables, all crucial for surviving the heightened threats of Danger 5. Combining the item pickups and specific upgrades further amplifies these effects during critical encounters.

Why This Build Wins

  • Combining the explosive effects of consumables with melee damage to optimize health gain and damage output per point of engagement.
  • Utilizing the high crit chance and damage boosts from items to maximize the damage from melee attacks during explosive interactions.

Danger 5 Notes

Waves become significantly tougher with stronger enemy elites, thus more emphasis on controlling crowds and rapid recovery through consumables and life steal. Special attention is needed for doubled boss fights at wave 20.

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